De Garengeot's Hernia: Report of a Rare Surgical Emergency and Review of the Literature

This is a report of a case who was admitted and operated on for a strangulated femoral hernia. The hernia sac contained a gangrenous appendix, which was excised and the hernia was repaired with sutures without complication. De Garengeot's hernia, although very rare, should be included in the di...

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Published in:	Frontiers in surgery Vol. 5; p. 12
Main Authors:	Misiakos, Evangelos P, Paspala, Anna, Prodromidou, Anastasia, Machairas, Nikolaos, Domi, Vasileia, Koliakos, Nikolaos, Karatzas, Theodore, Zavras, Nick, Machairas, Anastasios
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 16-02-2018
Subjects:	appendectomy appendicitis de Garengeot's hernia femoral ring hernia repair Surgery de Garengeot's hernia appendicitis hernia repair appendectomy femoral ring
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Summary:	This is a report of a case who was admitted and operated on for a strangulated femoral hernia. The hernia sac contained a gangrenous appendix, which was excised and the hernia was repaired with sutures without complication. De Garengeot's hernia, although very rare, should be included in the differential diagnosis of cases with strangulated hernia and should receive the optimal treatment.
Bibliography:	ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Edited by: Hakan Kulacoglu, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Turkey Specialty section: This article was submitted to Visceral Surgery, a section of the journal Frontiers in Surgery Reviewed by: Melih Akinci, Dışkapı Yildirim Training and Research Hospital, Turkey; Ulf Gunnarsson, Umeå University, Sweden
ISSN:	2296-875X 2296-875X
DOI:	10.3389/fsurg.2018.00012